TABC Fascism

There is, apparently, a law in Texas that allows the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) to arrest people who are drunk in bars and who, in TABC officers' eyes, pose a threat. They don't have to be annoying anyone...or holding car keys in their hands...or doing anything that the averge bar patron might find offensive. They simply have to be intoxicated and be unfortunate enough to be observed by a TABC officer. Recently, TABC arrested 30 people after conducting sweeps in 36 bars. Of those arrested, 3 were in hotel bars and they were hotel guests...they had no intention of driving.

I'm all for protecting the public from dangerous people and keeping drunks off the roads is important, but I have a huge problem with people being preemptively arrested for the harm they might do, while they are doing nothing that suggests they might do harm. I am told this is not a new law, but TABC asked for funding to hire 100 new officers to enforce the law. If a person is accosting others or is being beligerent or picking fights...fine, arrest them. But if a person is simply intoxicated, the State has no interest in "protecting" the public from someone who poses no threat!

This is in the home state of the President of the United States who, as we all know, decided to preemptively attack another country to stop it from doing what we know it did not have the capacity nor the will to do. Some people do follow their leaders, regardless whether their leaders are amoral sociopaths or not. It's sickening.